Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth